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Khirbat Bayt Lid
خربة بيت لد Khirbet Beit Lid[1] | |
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Village | |
| Etymology: El Mughair=the caves[2] | |
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  Khirbat Bayt Lid Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°19′04″N 34°53′33″E / 32.31778°N 34.89250°E | |
| Palestine grid | 140/191 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tulkarm |
| Date of depopulation | 5 April 1948[1] |
| Area (2,969 Arab, 2,220 Jewish)[3] | |
| • Total | 5,336 dunams (5.336 km2 or 2.060 sq mi) |
| Population [4][3] | |
| • Total | 460 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Fear of being caught up in the fighting |
| Current Localities | Nordia[5][6] |
Khirbat Bayt Lid (Arabic: خربة بيت لد) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated by its Arab inhabitants during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
- ^ a b Morris, 2004, p. xviii, village #189. Also gives cause of depopulation
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 175
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 75
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 21
- ^ Morris, 2004, p. xxi, settlement #23.
- ^ Khalidi, 1992, p. 550.